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GameCube Production to Halt
avayre writes "Nintendo is to press the pause button on production of its GameCube consoles while it clears inventory of unsold machines. the company's president said on Thursday. But Satoru Iwata promised the struggling games company was developing a radical new product to be announced next year -- however he gave few details save to say it would be a departure from mainstream gaming consoles 'that will have a big impact on the world.'" My prediction is that it's just downtime until Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles ships. That'll help move those units that are gathering dust.
New rule - only people who don't live with their parents get to decide the difference between 'adult' and 'childish'.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Zelda looked like a great game. It is a very good game indeed , but it is spoiled because the stupid boat and the fish give away almost all secrets (zelda 1 and 3 where so cool). Now I'm "solving" the puzzles on my private oasis, they are pictures from which 1 square is missing and you have to shuffle them until you've got the picture right. There are 14 of them !!!!! If you can do one, you can do them all, but you have to leave the house 13 times and come back. Boooooring. Most parts of the game are very good, but everything is spoiled by tons of stupid dull puzzles.
Wario World is fun .... for 5 minutes. And then you realize that you have already encountered almost all creatures in the entire game. In the next level, they look a bit different, but they behave _exactly_ the same. Hey Nintendo, how many minutes did you guys spend making this game ?
Metroid Prime looked great, everybody else finds it great, but I think it stinks. People who like a gamepad for first person shooters haven't played Q3 (or anything like it) with a keyboard and a mouse simultaneously. The gamepad doesn't work for 1st person shooters, you simply can't aim with it, which is why the "L" button is for locking on a target, but that way is easy. And no, I'm not a bad gamer, I completed zillions of SNES games within 2 days (lucky we could rent these things). And, as usual everything is very dark so you can barely see what's happening.
All of these games cost 60 euro. You 'd think they can make something decent for that price, but even flock of total retards can do better than this crap.
On top of that, they sell the Zelda pack WITHOUT a memory card. Am I supposed to play 3 weeks non-stop ??? Nintendo, I hope you know where you can shove your next money-sucking fsck-up.
I'm worried that more and more we're going to get a lot less choices as far as the quality of the gaming consoles of the future, and seeing the 100-ton gorilla that is Nintendo going downhill really doesn't do much for the future outlook.
Nintendo has been screwing the pooch for awhile with their game marketing. Let's face it, no one is spending $200+ for their eight years or younger to play video games when they're just as happy with a Sega Genesis/Nomad or the SNES. This is the market that the cube has been cavorting with since it's release. (and this is the impression they want you to have, based on the fact that the included games would be super mario kart.. etc..)
They would do well to learn from history just one time. Atari 2600's sucked compared to the other consoles released in the early-eighties (Colecovision was probably my favorite at the time), but the games catered to everyone. Think of a topic or something you would like to do and most likely there was an Atari 2600 game for it. Even my mother-in-law was highly addicted to Kaboom -- that speaks greatly of the breadth of experience to be had with one little black box. Whether it be the Atari vs. Coleco, NES vs. Sega Master System (nice machine, no friggin games), SNES vs. Genesis, or Playstation vs. Saturn the thing to know is better hardware doesn't mean jack. It's all about the content, people can make due with an adequate interface.
If Nintendo doesn't want to make consoles anymore we'll be fine, because they currently are sucking at it completely. We are losing nothing -- their games suck.. AND.. if they think they can make money by just doing the games, well think again! The reason Nintendo is sucking isn't because the Game Cube isn't a nice box, it's that the GAMES suck. Why exactly would we buy their games any more than we do now if they came out on a Playstation 2 or XBox? Sega has already tried this move, and it's not working for them.
- Mind